The expression of the wild boar

Concertos for piano, violin, or cello are a dime a dozen. But how about a concerto for the carnyx, a massive, more than 2,000-year-old bronze wind instrument shaped like a wild boar’s head?

Australian composer Liza Lim places a replica of this fearsome Celtic “war trumpet” at the center of her new work Tongue of the Land and explores what knowledge and energies might be unleashed by its revival.

In conversations with composer Liza Lim, soloist Marco Blaauw, and conductor Elim Chan (who was originally scheduled to conduct the premiere; Peter Rundel will now take the podium on August 29), we delve deeply into the program of this concert by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO).